CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION

49 COR 40-8537 [¶23,174]

SAFE PRACTICES AND PERSONAL PROTECTION – PERSONAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT FOR FIRE FIGHTERS, WILDLAND FIRE FIGHTING REQUIREMENTS, THERMAL PROTECTION OF THE EARS AND NECK Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3410(c) (2022) – The Division did not establish that Employer failed to provide protection against burns to the ears and necks of firefighters engaged in wildland firefighting who were exposed to injurious heat and flame by way of flared neck shields attached to the brim of helmets, hoods, shrouds, snoods, or high collars with throat straps or other equivalent methods.

Summary of COSHAB-ALJ’s Decision dated March 30, 2022, Inspection No. 1360169 (Sacramento, CA).

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